picking the school for you

While I don't believe that there is one single best business school, I do believe there exists the best school for you.  I visited campuses, talked to the admissions staff, met with former students, and researched schools on the web.  I even sat in on a couple of classes, and googled professors.  You should too.  My short list had two schools on it.  The Red McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin and the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University.
  In the end, I only applied to Rice because I firmly believed that it was the school for me.  Many people have asked me why I didn't go to UT.  After all, it is currently ranked higher, is cheaper, and closer to where I live.  As a former Texas A&M graduate, some would say that I'm biased against UT, or that I don't like the color burnt orange; that I prefer blue and grey.  Frankly, I like to think that I'm more objective than that.  Certainly, McCombs has a much more visible presence in San Antonio than Rice, after all, that's where the school's patron got his start in business.  Red has built an incredible empire and he's a local icon.  I really admire how he is giving back to the community by helping create a world-class business school up in Austin.  While I think that Red is a swell guy and that UT provides an excellent education, it just isn't the perfect school for me.  Sorry Red.